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THE UNIVERSITY OF CIIICAGU. 




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T^HE photo-sketclies which follow describe the tumultu- 
ous life of the most cosmopolitan city in the worid. 
Within the memory of men yet living, this metropolis of 
the Central States, now the second large.st city of the 
Western Hemisphere, was an Indian garrison. Alladin 
wa\ed his lamp and presto ! behold the abode of 2,000.000 
people. 

There are three grand divisions of the city— viz. : the 
North, South and West sides. These are formed by the 
windings of the river from which the town takes its name 
and which empties into Lake Michigan near the lower 
western extremity of that inland sea. 

Chicago is the greatest railway center in the worid 
and has five magnificent Union depots and two individual 
ones. Its arrangements for local transportation are upon 
a like scale of grandeur and include an elevated railroad 
system and electric lines innumerable. 

The business interests of tins city of wonders endjrace 
every imaginable branch of commerce and manufacture. 
As a gram, lumber, live stock and packing market it 
stands su])reme. 

The names of the hotels is legion, for they are many. 
Some of the leading ones are: Auditorium, Great North- 
ern, Palmei- House, Leland, Wellington, Virginia, Lexing- 



ton, Metropole, Lakota, Grace, Clifton House, Atlantic, 
Burke's, Gault, Windsor, Sherman. Lansing, Brigg's 
House, Chicago Beach, McC-oys, Bordeaux. Brevort, Im- 
perial, River Hou.se. Saratoga. Transit, Tremont. Vendome, 
Victoria. Plaza. Stamford, Grand Central St^ition, Chicago 
View, Kahn's. 

In iniblic halls and theatres Chicago is especially rich. 
Among the former may be mentioned the Auditorium and 
Central Music Hall; and among the latter Chicago Opera 
House, Columbia Theatre, Grand Opera House, Hay- 
market, Hooley's. McVicker and Schiller. 

Some of the largest and finest parks in the world are 
to be found here. Indeed, a boulevar.l system has been 
arranged which unites the three grand divisions, and at 
the .same time provides a continuous park driveway or 
pr(imena<le of unprecedented beauty and extent. 

The public spirit of the city is one of its characteristic 
features. Its provisions for education are superb and its 
University has grown as phenomenally as has Chicago 
it.self. The new Pf,st Office, the Public Library, tlie Art 
Museiuns and Academies of Science compire favorabljr 
with .similar inst'tutions anywhere. 

Other cities are children of the past. Chicago is the 
heir of the future. 




THE CITY HALL AND COOK COUNTY COURT HOUSE 
Are located in a huge building on the square facins Washing^ton, Clark. La Salle and Randolph Streets. The cost of the building, which was erected in 1877 to 

1882, amounted to $6,000,000. It is one of the chief landmarks of the city. 




THE ART INSTITUTE, 

On Michigan Avenue is a monumental structure built of limestone, wtiich is owned by the city of Chicago, and contains many classical and modern masterpieces 

cf fine art. The collections are open to the public free of charge on Wednesdays and Saturdays, on Sundays and on legal holidays. 

Charles L. Hutchinson is the President of the Institute. 




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THE LNIVERSITY OF ChlCAGO. 
Established about five years ago. bids fair to become the leading: institution of learning in the West. It was founded by John D. Rockefeller, a New York maenate 
and has since received ample donations from many private sources. The endowment fund of the institution now amounts to nearly $12,000,000. Inder the 
able guidance of William R. Harpsr. President, the leaders of the universit\' are perfecting a most thorough course of general and special training. The 
institution is located on the South side, between Fift\'-seventh and Fifty-ninth Streets. 




THE FIRST REGIMENT ARMORY, I. N. G., 

Is one of the most solid of Chicago's many stone structures. Public subscription supplied the building fund nearly $500,000. and the site is Michigan Avenue 
and Sixteenth Street. The First Regiment of the Illinois N.itional Guard will occupy the building for gg years. 




TME CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY. 
The Public Library BuilJinsr.a massive structure on MichiEan Avenue and Washington Street, is Chicago's pride, and justly so. Its magnificent inside finish 
in marble and mo'.her-of-pearls. rare stones, etc., is a delight to the eye. In it is housed the free public librar>', with its adjuncts of reading, e.\change and 




THE AUDITORIUM BUILDING. 

The Auditorium Budding was erected by Ferdinand W. Peck in 1887 83, at a cost of $2,000,000, and consists of a magnificent hotel establishment facing; 
Michigan Avenue and Congress Street, an office building with entrance on Wabash Avenue, and the Auditorium assembly hall, which has a seating capacity of 
7,000. On the opposite side of Congress Street, facing Michigan Avenue, there has been erected the "Auditorium Annex." an extension of the hotel. No cost 
has been spared to make the Auditorium one of the most perfect buildings of its kind. 




THE PALMER HOUSE, 
One of Chicago's leading hotels, is located on State and Monroe Streets. It was built in .872 at a cost of $2,000,000. 













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THE CALUMET CLUB HOUSE. 

Corner of Michigan Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street, is the home of the Calumet Club, an organization of the cream of Chicago society. 

This club devotes considerable attention to the early history of Chicago. 




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THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY 
Was provided for by the late W. A. Newberrj-. a wealthy Chicago citizen, who bequeathed nearly Sz. 500.000 to the establishment of a library on the North side 
The building, which was erected at a cost of $900,000. faces Walton Place. It contains the library-, which numbers nearly 100.000 volumes of books on 
special, mainly scientific and technical subjects— notably a most complete medical library— commodicus rsading and index rooms, and is the rendezvous of 

ChicaKo's learned men. 




THE UNION CLUB HOUSE 

Is one of the most notable North side social gathering places. The cluh was organized about twenty years ago. and has occupied its present 
beautiful house, on Washington Place and Dearborn Avenue, since 1881. 




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THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S BLILDING. 

Located at 142 Dearborn Avenue, is occupied by the Chicago Historical Society, and forms a safe place of deposit of many valuable historica. documents and 

relics relating to the former days of Chicago and surroundings. 




THE WOODLAWN SCHOOL 

Is a fair type of a modern Chicago sctioolhouse. Ttiere are $68,000,000 invested in the city's public schools ; the teaching force numbers over 5.000 men 

and women, who have nearly 250.000 pupils under their care. 




THE JEWISH TEMPLE. 

A Hebrew s>-nagogue, is located on Indiana Avenue. The Jewish church has twenu-one churches in Chicago, and many of the congregations command excellent 

teaching and mission facilities. 




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HUMBOLDT PARK STABLE. 




THE STAR FLOWER DESIGN, LINCOLN PARK. 




A FLOWER DESIGN. WASHINGTON PARK. 




GAME OF "CrRLiNG,' WASHINGTON PARK. 




THE BOAT HOUSE. LINCOLN PARK. 




THE GRANT MONUMENT, LINCOLN PARK. 




COTTAGE FLOWER DESIGN, GARFlfcLD PARK. 




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BASEBALL MOUND FLOWER DESIGN, DREXEL BOULEVARD. 




THE LikLXLL luLNTAIN 

Was donated to the city of Chicago by an Eastern banking tirm in commemoration of one of Chicagu's famous citizens. Its height is 55 feet, and the base is 

surrounded by a basin 22 feet in diameter. I he structure cost Sio.ooo. and was designed by H. M. Monger, a Philadelphia sculptor 




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THE FLOWER GLOBE, WASHINGTON PARK. 
The Flower Globe is a remarkable example of the skill of modern gardeners. It represents a elobe ornamente-l u,i,h r . ■ , 

pri-'Ipal countries and waters on the earth. represents a globe ornamented with live, growing plants so as to show the 




NATURAL BRIDGE. LINCOLN PARK. 
One of the most remarkable examples of the gardener's skilL 




VIEW IN WASHINGTON PARK. 




VIEW IN LINCOLN PARK. 




THE ILLINOIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK BUILDING. 
Comer of La Salle and Jackson Streets, is a stone and brick structure of fine architectural tinish. which, on account of its hig 

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MARSHALL FIELD & CO S WHOLESALE STORE 
Occupies one of the finest stone structures in the city, and is located on Quincy. Franl<lin and Adams Streets. It is a center of the dry 
foods business in the West, and owing to the very strict, yet courteous methods adopted in dealing with other houses, the Field 
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Is, like " The Fair." one of Chicago's g:reat sights. As the largest department store in the world, occupying an entire block facing Van Buren, Congress and State 

Streets, the construction of which cost nearly $2,000,000, it is quite representative of American 

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Comer of State and Randolph Streets, was opened in 1879. It was intended as a center of music and lerture performances, and remained long a distinctive 

gathering place of musical societies and concert people. It was here that Dr. Newell D. Hillis, now called to 

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One of Chicago's great department stores, facing State, Adams and Dearborn Streets, is a splendid example of what may be accomplished by energy and 

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Chicago is justly proud of her high buildings, the later patterns of which are here, as well as in all other large cities, not only fire-proof and solidly constructed, 
but quite convenien* from a business point of view, as they permit a great deal cf business to be transacted within a narrow space. The range of the above view 
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HOTEL METROPOLE. 
This hotel is located on Twent>'-third Street and Michigan Avenue, and figures as one oi the most commodious, eletrant up-town family 

hotels, with good accommodations for transient trade. 




THE WELLINGTON HOTEL. 
Corner of Wabash Avenue and Jackson Boulevard, is a modern hotel, dignified and Wellingtonian in appearance, both out and inwardly. 




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One of the most renowned of the Chicago houses of devotion, is located at 2535 Michigan Avenue, in the center of a most wealthy and 

fashionable residence quarter. 




McVEAGH RESIDENCE. 




VIEW OF THE UNION STOCK YARDS. 
A description of the Stock Yards is supplied with another view of the grounds. 




VIEW OF THE HARBOR. 

The system of docks and landings on the Chicago and Calumet Rivers extend over more than fifty miles. The harbor system is yet incomplete, but constant 
improvements are being made with a view to extend the city's facilities for accommodating the large inland waterway traffic to the extent needed. 




T-^ ^,. VIEW OF THE DRAINAGE CANAL. 

The Chicago drainage canal is one of the most stupendous undertakings ever can-ied out bv the citv- of Chicat^o It nm.l i. 4 .u .■ 
sewerage through an artificial canal from Lake Michigan through Chicago to the nearest point on the D^s la,^ Xer Wh co 'Tet 'd% Tf'"" "' '"'"^^° 
hnk ,n the canal system about the great lakes, facilitating the connection between the central States and the Gulf of MexTco and" u . T '" ""•'°^''"' 

improving the citys water supply. The cost of the complete canal is estimated at $26,000,000. ^^° "^ °* considerable aid in 




HAYMARKET SQUARE, 
A crowded West side thoroughfare and a center of considerable wholesale provision business, was the scene of the deplorable Anarchist riot of May 5. 1886. that 
resulted in the killing of eight policemen. The monument visible in the foreground was erected by the citizensot Chicago in honor of the city's police force 
and in commemoration of the heroism displayed by the "boys" during the difficult days of th? eighties. The figure is that of a policeman, and the monument 
bears this fitting inscription : " In the Name of the People of Illinois. I Command Peace." 




THE ELEVATED RAILROAD. 

View on Wabash Avenue. Tracks and interlockings. 




THE ELEVATED RAILROAD. 
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VIEW IN UNION STOCK YARDS. 




THE ELEVATED RAILROAD. 
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THE ELEVATED RAILROAD. 
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VIEW IN THE UNION STOCK YARDS. 
The stock yards. South Halsted Street, are one of Chicago's gigantic business centers. Occupying, as they do. more than 400 acres of land, they connect 
all freight lines running into the city, and are the site of some of the largest packing houses in the world. The amount of capital involved in the stock yards 
business is some $30,000,000. 




VIEW OF MADISON STREET, 
Looking west from Dearborn Street. 




VIEW OF THE CHICAGO RIVER. 




SOUTH WATER STREET. 

Running along- the Chicago River from Wabash Avenue to Market Street, Is a center for the trade in provisions, fruit, etc. At all times of the day one w\V find the 

sidewalks impassable owing to the loading and unloading of vans and wagons. The trade done by the South Water Street dealers is \.holesale 

exclusively. To any one who cares to see at one place more food than he could digest during his whole lifetime this street is an object of interest. 



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